The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-21
THEY DIED TOGETHER.
Mother aud Daughter Suicide at
the same Time.
Hurribi" D,scovery-Th-y Ac-
knowledge Insanity.

NEW YcRK, Auguot ga disgu.t.
inc stencil lad filed the tenement 81
Charles street for the past Nv days,
and yesterday II grewso bad tina Mrs.
Franklin the housekeeper, I o, Hed the
police. She believed that the smoll
came from a decsyiDg pail OF garbage
In the rooms on tha s,o,nd hoor occu-
pied by Mrs. Melvina Il, W. Payne
sud her daughter Anna NJ. On Mon
day last the women had been seen
cosing up the bbulttrs and II was
thought they had gone into the coun'
try. The report 10 the police brought
no response, and this forenoon the
stencil had grown go vile tina, Mr..
Hammanp, the owner Of the house,
decided to mako an Investigation.
lie got out on the fre eecaue and
peered through :he shutters into tho
women's room. He raw both women
lying dead on the bed, which was be-
epsltertd with blood. Aa. gots
oravled over the sheets. Honor
strlcter, ,he man ryst ed.ior the police,
and q loCksmith YVES procured, vino
burst open the door. Di0inftctAnts
we're spread about and thon an iuye,-
iigation was made. The women had
been lying dead since Monday. A
rEr and an emriy laudanum bottle
were On q chair beside the bid. Hal
stuptdsd by tire poi 90, probably, and
iuaensiblo TO pain, the vomen bad cut
the arleyiOs at their elbows and ankles
aud bled to death locked In
each o,hev arms. Death had
unlOoeed their grip and they lay
eide by side, facing each other, when
found. Letters found on q table be-.
side the bed showed that they had
carefully consldeied tho plan OF sui
eide aud decided TO die together. The
envelope containing them IVES 80
s5sked vito blood that the address
vas almost illegible. The police made
| Il out 20 be "Miss II. A. Weed, No IL
West Twelfth street. Miss Weed Ia q
daughter Of the late Thurlow Weed,
and the Paypeo we're known 10 be old
ifiends Of the Weed family. the let.
ter taid:
"Miss II. A. Weed!
"DRAR FMKSD-Il anything happens
IN a we are both found dead, will you
sse that We are both buried in the Al
bany Rural cemetery, In oaken cns.
kets7 Mr.. James Buns, Of the ctmo-
terry, knows where our lot TO- Ny
mo,heT had fl0l In the Bles keT Street
Savings Bank have money in the
above b. NIX, also In the BoweTy Saw.
iugs aud the Dry Dock, In Third ave-
nue.. These amounta will pay all the
funeral expenses. We have pinched
aud ravod this N oney flr a little
homestead, hut that In III hopeless
nov. We art both helpless nov a. to
cur min1B. We arc not a. n care for
ourselves. The contents Of our house
are 10 be given 10 tho poor"
Another letter said: I'VE are both
OF rs, my mother ard |, insane and
broad the madhuu1e. We want 10 he
with our family. Toll our relatives
where We lie. Our relatives: Henry
Martin. No "a Seelye avenue, Cleve-
lagd, o; s. NJ. Talbot, Willoushby,
Lake county, o.: Julia A. Man, hsld,
OhAthaugsy, Franklin county, N. Y.
TIE Payne family hsd lived In the
house upwards Oi three years. They
we're qulot gentleWomtn. Mira. Payne
was a widow about sixty yesrs old.
Her daughter was about thirty Ave
years OF aged, and was a teacher In
the T. mt Side public school. II wac
not known by ths n,ilhbotg tina,
there was anything unueual about thG
u0upn